The Plot against the NHS

Book review here, lecture about the book by author Colin Leys here and articles by Colin Leys in the Redpepper here.

“A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public”
Mark Twain.

This issues in this book, the unhealthy relationships between the government and the commercial health industry, will be familiar to some and shocking to most. Because it will be controversial, it meticulously references every claim, so that if you disagree or simply cannot believe what is says, you can check for yourself.

How different it is from the approach of the government who completely failed to reference their hugely controversial NHS reforms.

The Guardian reported, “The NHS in England and Wales has helped achieve the biggest drop in cancer deaths and displayed the most efficient use of resources among 10 leading countries worldwide, according to the study published in the British Journal of Cancer.” And in an extraordinary piece of doublespeak the Department of health responded, “There is a difference between achieving efficiency and the results patients receive. While it is good that NHS cancer treatment is relatively efficient, we know that the results patients actually get lag behind many other countries”